Schwarz Gallery - Catalog 73 - Europeans & Americans Abroad



Front Matter Cover Title Page Copyright & Announcement Acknowledgments Plates [ sort by artist ] Gool, Jan van Unknown artist Still Life: Fruit and Wine Ruyten, Jan Michael Spohler, Jacob Jan Coenraad Doll, Anton Unknown artist Floral Still Life Moormans, Frans Unknown artist Sir Thomas Hammond Costa, Julio Da D’Entrayques, Charles-Bertrand Laugée, Désiré-François Bromley, William, III Hutin, Charles Jernberg, Olaf August Andreas Blommers, Bernardus Johannes Frère, Pierre-Edouard Bigg, William Redmore Munsch, Joseph Bertling, Carl Adam, Julius, II Hubner, Carl Wilhelm Heck, Robert Wilhelm Emil Ertz, Edward Frederick Herzog, Herman Seascape Norwegian Waterfall in Hemsdalen Prouvé, Victor Émile Gabani, Giuseppe Reid, Flora MacDonald Pratt, William Ranken, William Bruce Ellis Sheppard, Warren W. Nicholls, Burr H. Sadler, Walter Dendy The Battle Refought Safer Than the Bank De Faux, Alexandre Vernon, Paul Lawson, Ernest Braquaval, Louis Coudour, Henri Tellander, A. Frederick Luce, Maximilien Gall, François Villacres, Cesar A. Hayden, Henri	Herman Herzog (American, born Germany, 1832–1932) Seascape Oil on canvas, 22 × 29 inches Signed at lower left: “H. Herzog” For most of his very long—eighty-five years—and productive career, travel was Herman Herzog’s greatest inspiration. Born in Bremen, Germany, Herzog entered the Düsseldorf Academy at the age of seventeen; Andreas Achenbach (1815–1910) was the teacher who had the most lasting impact on his painting style. Another teacher was the Norwegian artist Hans Frederick Gude (1825–1903), who encouraged his young student to visit Norway. Herzog’s 1855 visit to that country awakened him to the sublime and wild aspects of nature. He exhibited widely on the continent, winning awards in Paris, Liège, and Brussels. Herzog painted seascapes of the North Sea off the coasts of Holland, Belgium, and Germany early in his career and later, after his move to the United States, in paintings that are probably based on earlier sketches. Disturbed by the political situation in Germany, Herzog immigrated to the United States sometime in the late 1860s or early 1870s, settling in West Philadelphia, where he and his wife raised two sons. Even before his arrival, his paintings had been shown in several of the annual exhibitions of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia (beginning in 1863 with Norwegian Landscape). Herzog’s work was well received, and his profitable investment of the income from the sale of his paintings allowed him to stop selling his art, which remained largely in his family’s possession. The Schwarz Gallery has been collecting paintings by Herzog for years, and in December 1979 published a catalogue devoted to his work: Herman Herzog (1832–1932). The Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, held a major Herzog exhibition in 1992; the exhibition catalogue, American Paintings of Herman Herzog, includes an essay by Donald S. Lewis, Jr. Copyright ©2004 The Schwarz Gallery

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